Why Travel?: Understanding our Need to Move and How it Shapes our Lives

Front Cover -- Why Travel?: Understanding Our Need To Move And How It Shapes Our Lives -- Copyright Information -- Table Of Contents -- List Of Figures -- Image Credits -- Notes On Contributors -- The Independent Transport Commission (itc) -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Why Travel? An Introduction -- Understanding Travel Behaviour: The Value Of Movement -- Our Starting Point -- Our Path: A Voyage Of Discovery -- Fundamental Motivations: The Pleasure Of Travel -- Travel As Exploration And To Discover Ourselves -- The Future Of Human Travel: Limits And New Horizons -- Our Destination Note -- Part I Fundamental Motivations -- 2 Biological Perspectives On Travel -- 'the Travelling Ape' -- Travel And Human Evolution -- Evolution Of Bipedalism -- Human Curiosity And The Consequences Of Bipedalism: Brains, Hands And Speech -- The Human Brain -- The Hand -- Speech -- The Biology Of Travel -- Active Travel And Health: Body And Mind -- Processing Travel Within Our Brains -- Sharing The Travel Experience: Humans As Social Animals -- The Importance Of Actually Travelling: Unconscious Environmental Cues -- Curiosity, Travel And Scientific Discovery Conclusions: Why Do We Travel -- And How Might We Make Travel Better? -- Notes -- References -- 3 Travel And The Mind -- Introduction -- Deep Travel: A Human Mentality Of Travel -- The Origins Of Human Movement And The Development Of The Human Mind -- Travel, Navigation And The Animal Mind -- The Travelling Ape -- New Horizons: The Development Of Heightened Awareness -- Sedentism And Our Diminishing Capacity For Awareness -- Our Brains On (deep) Travel: Lessons From Neuroscience And Psychology -- Humans As 'infovores': The Pleasure Of Novelty How Deep Travel Upsets Our 'field Of Promoted Action' -- The Two-day Rule: Deep Travel Fading -- Travel And Our Cognitive And Emotional Mental Health -- The Benefits Of Alert Travel -- Dangers Of A Sedentary Lifestyle, Confinement And The Great Move Indoors -- Modern Travel: Jet Lag And Hypermobility -- What This Might Mean For Policy Makers -- Notes -- References -- 4 Philosophy And Travel -- Introduction -- The Ancients On Travel -- The Pathway To Insight -- The Challenge Of Travel -- The Moderns On The Benefits Of Travel -- Broadening The Mind -- Travel For Wonder -- Travel For Self-knowledge Travel For Sociability -- Travel As Liberation -- The Drawbacks Of Travel: Philosophical Insights -- Travel Rights And Wrongs: The Morality Of Movement -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 The Economics Of Travel -- Travel As A Derived Demand -- Inspiring Destinations -- Are We Nearly There Yet? -- Travel Time Budgets -- Inspiring Journeys -- Valuing The Travel Experience -- The Economic Downsides Of Travel -- Why Do We Really Travel? A Behavioural Economics Perspective -- The Future -- Notes -- References -- Part Ii Travel For Exploration And Knowing Ourselves Edited By Matthew Nibleyy And Kris Beuret ; With A Foreword By Tony Wheeler. Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.